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- From: nahst6+@pitt.edu (Nathan A Horstman)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: 9mm Nyclad HPs
- Message-ID: <2273@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 04:01:16 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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-
- OK....here's the scoop....
-
- I shoot two kinds of ammo in my 9mm--115 gr. JHP (non +P reloads) and 125 gr.
- Federal Nyclad HPs.
-
- Now...one time I decided to "experiment". I based this experiment on the
- (faulty?) assumption that if you shot a HP into, say, a swimming pool, it
- would expand because of the water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but...
-
- So I take several jugs, (plastic milk jugs, plastic two-liter bottles) fill
- them with water and line them up one behind another. I load up a Nyclad
- and fire from @ 10 feet away. It went through (to the best of my
- recollection) a one-gallon jug, a half-gallon jug, 2 two-liter jugs and came
- to rest inside the last two-liter jug. I very carefully emptied out the
- water and what was left in the bottom was a perfectly unexpanded Nyclad
- bullet...in such good shape that it probably could have been loaded and
- fired again....the only distortion being the rifling marks in the plastic
- coating and the hollow opening was slightly oval shaped instead of perfectly
- round. What happened?
-
- I'm not done. So I take my only remaining two-liter jugs, set them on an
- embankment, and load up 2 115 JHPs. I put one squarely in each jug. When
- I'm done, I retrieve the two bullets from @ 2-3" deep in the earth of the
- embankment behind each jug and.....drum roll.....perfect mushrooms both.
-
- So what happened? I know it wasn't the perfectly conducted scientific
- method type of experiment, but the events should have had nearly the same
- outcome, shouldn't they? A little more info: the ground behind the two
- jugs was slightly damp, and there was nothing clogging the hollow point of
- the Nyclad.
-
- I wonder if the structure of the Nyclad is at fault: It has no jacketing
- that I'm aware of except for a plastic coating and the walls around the
- hollow section seem very thick, and the lead very hard and stiff. Does
- anyone know for sure? Could this be it?
- Do hollow points normally expand when in contact with JUST water?
-
- I just wonder how well it would REALLY work against a perp. Makes me
- wonder.
-
- Nathan
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